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A few hours earlier this long rubber fisherman's walkway had been flying through the air, tossed around by the strong winds blowing across Dungeness beach. It came to rest in this serendipitous form and just had to be photographed!
I read several Twain novels when I was a teen, but I became a fan when I read his social commentary in college.
So many quotations are attributed to Twain that are things he never said nor wrote. I made sure mine were all genuine Twainisms. They can be found with many others, researched by Twain Scholar Barbara Schmidt at: www.twainquotes.com/quotesatoz.html
One of my favorite quotes, not in the image above:
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
Created for Mixmaster 13 in the Artistic Manipulation Group following Chef Beth's recipe:
➤ Your image must be a pure, non-representational abstract.
➤ It may NOT contain any recognizable objects or beings. Note: it may be digital art from a blank canvas and/or a photo manipulation, as long as the subject of the photo is not recognizable in the final result.
➤ Your image must convey/embody an emotion.
➤ The title of your image must be a quotation that includes the name of whatever emotion you have chosen.
➤ Your image must use three distinct colors/hues (besides black and white which are optional). Note: light, medium and dark blue are NOT distinct hues; blue, green and purple are.
This abstract was created by collating and blending several of my own abstracts and textures in Photoshop Elements 13.
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
Exactly!
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Big thanks to leschick for texture!
The title quotation is meant as a humorous play on words. An egg does indeed make a fragile gift. (unless hard boiled, or better still a Faberge egg !)
But it does not really address Janets thought provoking and challenging theme of 'defining beauty'.
So my serious quotation is from the landscape artist John Constable
"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." John Constable
Constables quote is a bit of a 'catch all' and I dont claim to have done justice to light shade and perspective.
I was tempted to feature a 'painted lady' butterfly (see my photostream) which most people will regard as beautiful. But decided to remain with the hens egg, even though as Confucius pointed out some will not see it as beautiful.
I think it is. There are eggs with a prettier colour or pattern. But a hens egg still shows a beauty of form, and is one of natures beautiful and practical designs. Wonder and beauty are close kin.
Please zoom in to better see the breathing pores and imperfections.And try not to think of them as ugly
"What greater gift than the love of a cat.." -- Charles Dickens
I think we all can agree with this quote! :-)
Happy Caturday!
Hate to post and run, but I will be gone all day Saturday, so I will comment late.
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
- Kahlil Gibran
I found these funny quotations and wanted to share these with you. I hope it makes you laugh.Have a wonderful day Everyone!
More about quotation mark abuse at my blog, along with a link to The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.
في ذكرى مرور مائة عام على احتلال فرنسا للجزائر ، وقف الحاكم الفرنسي في الجزائر يقول : "يـجـب أن نـزيـل الـقرآن العربي من وجودهم..ونقتلع اللسان العربي من ألسنتهم ؛ حتى ننتصر عليهم "
وبعد ذلك بسنوات قلائل :
قـامـت فـرنـسا - من أجل القضاء على القرآن في نفوس شباب الجزائر - بتجربة عملية ؛ فـتم انـتـقاء عـشـرة فـتـيات مسلمات جزائريات ، أدخلتهن الحكومة الفرنسية في المدارس الفرنسية ، ولقنتهن الثـقـافة الفرنسية ، وعلمتهن اللغة الفرنسية ، فأصبحن كالفرنسيات تماماً.
وبـعـد أحـد عـشـر عـاماً مـن الجهود ، هيأت لهن حفلة تخرج رائعة دعي إليها الوزراء والمفكرون والصحفيون...
ولمـا ابـتدأت الحـفلـة ، فـوجـئ الجميع بالفتيات الجزائريات يدخلن بلباسهن الإسلامي الجزائري..
فثارت ثائرة الصحف الفرنسية ، وتساءلت : "ماذا فعلت فرنسا في الجزائر إذن بعد مرور مائة وثمانية وعشرين عاما؟!
أجـاب "لاكـوسـت " وزير المسـتـعمـرات الـفرنـسي :"ماذا أصنع إذا كان القرآن أقوى من فرنسا؟"
المصدر:
مجلة البيان العدد 41
“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson
Just a quotation I found and loved... This mallard hen has lots of friends is the reason I used the shot...
For the inner reality of man is a demarcation line between the shadow and the light, a place where the two seas meet; it is the lowest point on the arc of descent and therefore is it capable of gaining all the grades above. With education it can achieve all excellence; devoid of education it will stay on, at the lowest point of imperfection.
-Abdu'l-Baha
I found these funny quotations and wanted to share these with you. I hope it makes you laugh.Have a wonderful day Everyone!
I don't have one single favourite quotation, but I do believe, and have experienced, that however dark things seem in life circumstances, there is always a light shining somewhere.
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
― Vincent van Gogh
Familiar collection of quotation to describe what your feel.
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and smiling actually makes those around you cheerier as well. All of this shows that the old sayings actually deliver great...
Created for Mixmaster 13 in the Artistic Manipulation Group following Chef Beth's recipe:
➤ Your image must be a pure, non-representational abstract.
➤ It may NOT contain any recognizable objects or beings. Note: it may be digital art from a blank canvas and/or a photo manipulation, as long as the subject of the photo is not recognizable in the final result.
➤ Your image must convey/embody an emotion.
➤ The title of your image must be a quotation that includes the name of whatever emotion you have chosen.
➤ Your image must use three distinct colors/hues (besides black and white which are optional). Note: light, medium and dark blue are NOT distinct hues; blue, green and purple are.
This abstract started as a blank grey canvass to which I added layers of texture, and purple, blue and green paint using brushes in Photoshop Elements 13.
The texture layers are my own.
Again, serendipity popped its amazing head as yesterday I had photographed this little hut at my favorite herb farm and came home to a lovely testimonial from my flickr calligraphy friend, Blunder.
Goodness, don't know what I've done to deserve such staggering compliments, but am genuinely grateful to have been an inspiration in some small way! To "possess a skeleton key that unlocks all the doors and windows of the souls in the world, in every person" is an astounding statement!
I love Sir Blunder's words, "Personally I think that the soul can only be truly free when it can find a door or a window through which it can express itself creatively."
I can truly attest to that feeling of "freedom" and have to agree with the following quotations:
“Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.” ~ Claudia Lady Bird Johnson ~
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” ~ Dale Carnegie ~
“Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.”
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~